The following comes from Oct. 9 releases sent out by Planned Parenthood.
With the stroke of his pen, Gov. Jerry Brown today improved reproductive health access for thousands of women in California, bucking the national trend to limit women’s health programs and abortion access. Gov. Brown signed two bills, AB 154 and AB 980, which together improve abortion access so women can receive care from providers they trust in their own communities.
Authored by Assembly Majority Floor Leader Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), AB 154 broadens access by allowing specially-trained nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants to perform early abortions within the terms of their licenses. AB 980, authored by Assemblymember Richard Pan, M.D., eliminates several arcane regulations tied to abortion care and ensures that all primary care clinics in the state, including those that provide abortion care, are held to the same standards.
“Governor Brown has always been a champion for women’s reproductive health and he’s proved it once again,” said Kathy Kneer, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California. “His signing of these bills comes at a critical time when other states and the Congress are moving to restrict access to reproductive health care. Last year, 43 states moved to restrict abortion access. We hope that California can serve as a model for the nation and help stem the tide of regressive reproductive health laws.”
“….California is showing the rest of the country that this is not the time to go backwards on access to safe and legal abortion, “ said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “This is an important step toward ensuring politics and geography cannot interfere with the medical decisions that belong to a woman and her health care provider. Gov. Jerry Brown signing these two bills into law at a time when Planned Parenthood organizations are fighting in statehouses and courthouses across the country against policies that would take women back to the 1950s makes this victory for California women all the more important.”
….Thank you to all of the reproductive health supporters across California for helping make this happen!
….The bill had the support of the California Women’s Health Alliance, which comprises more than 30 women’s health and rights groups that support improving access to women’s reproductive health care.
California Women’s Health Alliance members: ACCESS Women’s Health Justice, ACLU of California, ACT for Women and Girls, American Nurses Association/California, Bay Area Communities for Health Education, Black Women for Wellness, Business & Professional Women of Nevada County, California Church IMPACT, California Family Health Council, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, California Nurse-Midwives Association, California Women’s Law Center, Cardea Institute, Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, Choice USA, Forward Together, Fresno Barrios Unidos, Khmer Girls in Action, League of Women Voters of California, NARAL Pro-Choice California, National Abortion Federation, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Council of Jewish Women – California, National Health Law Program, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, National Network of Abortion Funds, Nevada County Citizens for Choice, Nursing Students for Choice, Physicians for Reproductive Health, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, Reproductive Justice Coalition of Los Angeles, Women’s Community Clinic, Women’s Health Specialists of California
To see the entire releases, click here and here.
Explain to me why Archbishop Gomez cheerfully appeared with Gov. Brown when Brown signed the alien driver’s license bill. Explain to me why Bishop Barber gave Holy Communion to Gov. Brown.
Actually, I know why, it’s all about the Democrat Party and the California Catholic Church’s slavish devotion to it.
Caution: God is not mocked!
I had talked earlier about how Ohio Governor Kasich has balanced the budget and I thought if any of you CCD readers are interested, he is sponsoring a petition to pass a balanced Federal balanced budget amendment. https://balancethebudget.kasichforohio.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=display&utm_term=ohio&utm_content=newssites&utm_campaign=sign. He’s a faithful Catholic and quietly gets things done. Our Sec.of State is also a VERY faithful Catholic and is doing amazing things to protect children. I just wanted to share that the whole country isn’t going to pieces.
PS If Ohio passes a law to enable males to use female restrooms and showers you’d better start looking for the second coming!
Women want control over their bodies and the legal right to abort (remove) a part of their bodies that they feel they don’t want. Removing a fetus (abortion) is not the same as removing a tumor or removing a sixth toe from one’s foot. These women haven’t done their homework. A fetus (a living, growing baby) is not the same as the mother’s body: it has different genes than the mother. A baby is created by half of its genes coming from the mother and half of its genes coming from the father. Therefore, only half of the baby is the same as the mother’s body. I can understand that a mother might not want to carry a baby that is the result of rape, but the baby has done nothing wrong. Why kill the baby? The mother could carry the baby to term, deliver the baby (she wouldn’t even have to see it) and put it up for adoption to loving parents who would give the baby a good home. It’s ironic that many of the same people who want to abolish the death sentence for those found guilty of heinous crimes (such as mass murders )want to kill innocent babies who have committed no crime.
Sarah,
It is not “ironic” IT IS DEMONIC!
May God have mercy on an amoral America!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Has this guy Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam/Moonbat” Brown ever been the subject of Canon 915? He is a former seminarian for whom any semblance between a practicing Roman Catholic and himself is strictly coincidental, again betrays legions of innocent unborn humans lying peacefully in their mother’s wombs, and with a “stroke of the pen” makes them vulnerable to horrific deaths by means so cruel and barbaric they defy description. How long will this holocaust perpetrated against real human beings in the earliest stages of their existence go on? This particular one dwarfs any waged against any other group in history. And the latest moral outrage is put into motion by a former Catholic seminarian? Shades of Joseph Stalin, also another former seminarian (Russian Orthodox). But he murdered by his various “strokes of pens” some 40 or more million men, women and children. California since 1967 has put to death innocent little humans in the womb to the tune of some 30 million, and Brown has either sat idly by while they were murdered, or facilitated by his various actions as Governor a good many of those 30 million. Stalin is justly reviled by all decent folk for his bloody hands; why do all the Democrats keep returning Brown to office like he doesn’t have ANY blood on his hands? Where’s the revilement? Go figure. GOD BLESS ALL, Markrite
It can be surmised that no one praised by the likes of these Planned Barrenhood cretins “can enter the Kingdom of Heaven”.
Pray for “Moonbeam” and the ‘bishops” who cater to the likes of him!
May God have mercy on an amoral America!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Why does Planned Parenthood refer to abortion as “Reproductive Health”? It terminates the reproductive process and results not in health but in death. These people are truly Orwellian in their choice of words. We do indeed live in Alice’s Wonderland, where words mean only “what I say they mean and not what you think they mean”.
Governor Moonbeam strikes again.
It’s so interesting to see how the liberal rips up our language and rearranges it in whole new amazing ways that are sophistry and empty rhetoric at its zenith, (or should I say ‘nadir’) eg”regressive reproductive health laws.” Abortion as reproductive health…an act that cuts, burns and hacks an innocent little person into bits and forces it from it’s mother’s womb is presented as an ultimate good. Regressive…aka repression, negative connotation of progressive…health care laws are presented as something to be feared and utterly loathed. Only fools and reactionary extremists would want to keep a woman from the freeing act of paying a hired thug to destroy the tiny life within her. The people who write this stuff and make up these hellish, upsidedown, in and out, over and under depredations on the English language must be spending late nights in the ministry of truth, lights ablaze, sweating it out in their little cubicles deciding how they can make infanticide look like an upscale, sophisticated and fun idea for funloving, effervescent feminists to embrace.
Good is now evil and evil is now good, Dana. And we’ll all be held accountable (suffer) as Catholics voted for Moonbeam, even as they vote in other political figures who don’t even try to hide their demonic agendas. After all, we don’t want to be viewed as narrow minded, voting against someone who is so loving toward the poor, their only strike being the promotion of rabid baby killing. That would be single issue voting – the highest crime of all!
And yet there are Catholics who still insist there is no crisis in the Church.
Ann Malley,
Speaking of using pro-abortion feminist “rhetoric” and “tactics” to divide and conquer…. “Feminist activists” are monitoring CCD. Perhaps they are actively contributing too. I posted part of the article below. You will recognize familiar sounding rhetoric. I read some of the archived blogs that are listed on the side. These are feminists reveling in the success of deceptive tactics to move and shape the political cultural forces. They are not only monitoring CCD but perhaps active deceivers. These activists will use any means of deception to achieve their desired goal. They have to in order to continue the conversation and cleverly interject their rhetorical poison at strategic times. I know you recognize that fact already Ann Malley. Our Lady of Akita’s messages surely speak of a crisis within the Church.
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Ann Malley, Please read ‘divide and conquer politics « Queer Migration Research Network
queermigration.com/tag/divide-and-conquer-politics/
“Homosexual Agenda,” Intersectionality & Immigrant Rights
By: Karma R. Chávez © 2011
“Such events and comments are truly exciting, and point to what some groups have been saying for a long time (see, e.g., this statement, this one and this one). While I can easily quibble with some of the ways in which these most recent connections between LGBTQ and immigration issues are being framed, I am more interested in how these connections have been noticed by some who appear to be made very nervous by them. A recent article in the California Catholic Daily takes issue with the creation of such connections. In reporting on an Orange County forum which was to address, among other issues, the intersections between LGBTQ and undocumented communities, the article argues, “The concept of ‘intersectionality’ is a growing tactic being used by homosexual activists to co-opt the immigrants’ rights movement.” The article does nothing to explain “intersectionality,” and seems to function mostly as a warning to Catholics who might be uncomfortable with another “sneaky” tactic used by conniving “homosexual” activists. The comments on this article suggest as much, as one commenter remarked, “’Intersectionality’ (who made up this word?) is a way for sodomite activists to equate Hispanics with homosexuals, as co-victims (incidentally oppressed by the Catholic Church)…” Another quipped, “Intersectionality????? JimAroo Rule Number One: When someone makes up a new word or phrase to describe an old situation or reality, they are always trying to deceive you.”
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Ann Malley,
Please read ‘divide and conquer politics « Queer Migration Research Network
queermigration.com/tag/divide-and-conquer-politics/
“It seems to me that this is an opportunity for progressive scholars and activists to take control of the rhetoric of such debates, especially when theoretical terms born in academia find their way into non-academic vernacular spaces. Certainly scholar/activists like Yasmin Nair have been doing this kind of work for a very long time. Others of us need to take on some of this labor. I’m not suggesting that the Catholic Church will necessarily be persuaded by our explanations of intersectionality or any other terms for that matter, but perhaps, the presence of more competing **discourse** would be fruitful.”
Anne, I suppose because what news I get of your governor is on this website, I have no idea of the regard in which he is held in Cal. Here in Ohio we have a Cath. gov. who is prolife and just signed a bill outlawing abortions after 20 wks. has balanced the budget! and is creating jobs and people seem to be discontent because the press does nothing but undermine what he does. I should have been more specific and not specious in my little ‘ministry of truth’ quip and described the average journalist and how they spin the truth. Catherine, your post went way over my head. You are so right about ‘good is now evil’. The better the person and the more he or she accomplishes, the more they get smeared. Catherine, I don’t understand your post…not what you wrote, but the quote. The language was really convoluted. Could you translate it for us? Also, I wrote a post supporting you on the post that was closed but it wasn’t allowed…just wanted you to know I appreciate what you bring to us here.
Dana: The press and media creates a marketplace for all manner of evil. Convincing the population through saturation and spin that they need/want/must have that which is inherently bad for them. Or at least that which will cost money to attain.
In my opinion it’s tantamount to your teen son/daughter falling in with the wrong friend who suddenly turns them against the parents. It’s the whisperings of the devil. It’s the desire to appear intelligent, sophisticated, hip, actualized, you-name-it. It’s a way of working the populace for money and power. Keep us steeped in filth and that’s what we’ll be clamoring for. Why? Because like a drug-addict, we’ve become dependent.
As for your governor, the old adage ‘No good deed goes unpunished’ would apply. Again, think of the rebellious teen analogy. Think, human beings running high on hormones, emotion, and a lack of accountability. That’s the market that’s being created. And that’s why when good folks do the right thing they are disliked or even hated until other folks grow up.
God bless your governor and keep him strong. Calling Jerry Brown ‘Moonbeam’ is the ultimate charity.
Catherine: Thank you for the suggested reading. I am very much for a competing discourse as the common trend to ‘progress’ with blinders on makes me highly suspicious. Why? Because there is always a ‘why’ behind everything.
That said, I cannot help but believe that those who wrote the Bible, the inspired word of God, knew their business:
2 Timothy 4:3 For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.
Kinda sounds like we’re at the point and how…
Pax
American Life Alliance has a powerful and useful publication about the truth behind PP. Various pro-life groups have already blanketed their communities with this resource, exposing the truth to thousands of people. It is not unusual for me to come across Hispanics who “practice” their Catholic faith, but still think that groups like the Democrats and PP, as well as “Hispanics/Latinos for _______”, think the way they do. After all, in their minds, PP is all about “planning families”, the Democrats are for the poor, and any group with the name, “Hispanics/Latinos”, are one of them. As long as bishops and priest embrace these same attitudes, and we, who know differently, keep silent, things will only get worse.
Those Hispanics who have put illegal Immigration ahead of “the Inalienable Right to Life” have a rude awakening when they come before an all just God!
May God have mercy on an amoral America!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Any priest or bishop attending or participating in an official or any event that does not include this so-called “Catholic” mass murderer repenting should himself be excommunicated. When is the Catholic laity ever going to wake up and start holding “the princes of the Church” accountable for their sometimes shameful and disgraceful collaberation with evil?
I’m largely ignorant of Church canon law, but is there any way the laity can bring a canon “lawsuit” against bishops who repeatedly refuse to enforce Canon 915 in cases (like Brown and Pelosi) where it is clearly warranted? These scandals just keep rolling, and I just feel so helpless to do anything about them (except pray).
tom in san jose: no
Prayer is where it’s at, Tom, for we fight against Powers and Principalities.
Intersting that NARAL, NOW, PLanned Parenhood and others are delirious with joy when “haaving all clincis have the same standards” was enacted into law here in CA. When the same law was proposed in Texas, NARAL and NOW went beserk with anger that their Legislature w0uld even consider such a terrible thing as “all Texas clinics having the same standards.” Funny how politics works, huh?
You probably know this but: Attending or participating in an event with a mass murderer is not an excommunicable offense. The laity has been doing that for a long time. However, it makes no difference because the ONLY means God has given the laity to effect that kind of change is through prayer (that is, asking Him).
Annonymous,
If I were you, I would not rely on that not being a mortal sin, Eternity is for an infinite amount of time and an infinite amount of time in horrible pain is horrifying!
May God have mercy on an amoral America!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
I did not say that it was not a mortal sin, or any sin. I said it was not excommunicable. One incurs excommunication for apostasy, heresy or schism; for throwing away or taking for sacrilegious purposes the Blessed Sacrament; for using physical force against the Roman Pontiff; if a priest, for absolving in confession an accomplice in adultery; possibly, if someone has not receive Holy Orders for saying Mass or hearing Confession; if a bishop, for consecrating someone a bishop without a pontifical mandate and also the person consecrated, for accepting the consecration; if a confessor, for directly violating the sacramental seal; possibly, if an interpreter or other person who has knowledge of confessed sins for violating the secret; if a penitent, for falsely denouncing their confessor for violating the seal; if a cleric or perpetually professed religious, for attempting marriage; for procuring a completed abortion. Of course there are other crimes and sins that are punished with other penalties such as interdict or suspension or where the penalty is left to the ordinary. I know some have been excommunicated for other things. I do not think the case you are referring to which seems to be giving communion to pro-choice politicians sustains any ecclesiastical penalty. If you know of a canon that addresses that, please post it.
Or perhaps you meant honoring pro-choice politicians or cooperating with them on other legislation? I believe a bishop like Cardinal Burke has much stricter standards than other bishops but he has never addressed any penalty for doing this and he is a canon law expert and head of the Apostolic Tribunal.
Jerry is just another fine example of a Jesuit.
Are Jesuits Catholic? Or was I taught the wrong religion?